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Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
by George Borrow
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London & New York: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1896 Book. Illus. by E J Sullivan. Very Good. Decorated Green Cloth Boards. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Semi-autobiographical story about life on the open road in the 19th century, by the English novelist and travel writer George Borrow (1803-1881). 588pp illustrated with tissue guarded black and white drawing to frontis and black and white drawings to the text. All edges gilt, illustrated endpapers. Gilt design and lettering to top board and spine. Dulled lettering to spine and former owner's stamp to half title page, otherwise very good copy..
Synopsis
Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th century English literature. According to the author lav-engro is a Romany word meaning "word master". The historian G. M. Trevelyan called it "a book that breathes the spirit of that period of strong and eccentric characters".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015972
- Title
- Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest
- Author
- George Borrow
- Illustrator
- E J Sullivan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rural Life;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
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- Half Title
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- Cloth
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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